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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald J. Trump State Park(s) N.Y. has a story exactly like you'd expect
As with most Bloomberg reports very well researched and all aspects covered.
A Failed Trump Golf Course Turned Into a Dilapidated New York State Park
Trump boasted undeveloped land worth five times assessed value
New York stopped maintaining marshy, overgrown forest in 2010
When Donald Trump bought 436 acres in upstate New York two decades ago, he envisioned adding two new championship golf courses to his collection.
But local leaders nixed the golf-course plans and his subsequent efforts to sell it to a homebuilding company faltered. So he gave it away.
"This is my way of trying to give back," he said at the time.
Like most deals involving Trump, there was more to it than goodwill. He was unloading what experts say was useless land, but not before working local officials to see if they could reappraise it at more than five times the assessed value, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and interviews with people involved -- and using a grossly inflated figure on later presidential campaign documents to show, falsely, the depth of his philanthropy.
Despite the purchase price of $2.75 million, and a county assessment of $5.5 million at the time of the donation, Trumps 2016 campaign said in a list of charitable donations published by The Washington Post that the land was worth $26.1 million.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-14/failed-trump-golf-course-turned-into-dilapidated-n-y-state-park
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)No pride of authorship.
underpants
(182,832 posts)I can totally see him being a dick about it too.
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TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)and couldn't reprint it.
Joking, of course. It is rather amateurish. No surprise there.
walkingman
(7,629 posts)corrupt and anti=environment person on the planet.
underpants
(182,832 posts)Another part I couldn't post in the OP
Tim Miller, an environmental consultant who worked on the plans, said Trump made no improvements to the land, so the value likely stayed the same. What he paid was its value, thats what I would expect, he said.
Miller added that he billed the Trump Organization a seven-figure sum for his work on the land as well as his work on Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Trumps company paid him all but $140,000, and after fighting for several months to get the balance, Miller said he finally accepted Trumps personal offer of a discounted membership at the Briarcliff Manor club in lieu of payment.
"It was either accept it or go to court," Miller said.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...so he "gifts" it to the state, even THEY don't want or need a swamp, but they just want this asshole out of their office so they throw up their hands and yell, "WHATEVER!" But, before he leaves, he tries to bribe them to inflate the assessment so he gets a bigger writeoff. They won't, so he goes ahead and lies about the inflated price anyway?
Do I have the right?
underpants
(182,832 posts)See my post above from the article about how Trump SURPRISE shafted a vendor he owed money to.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Just that he lied about it on his Campaign Docs listing how much money he'd given to charity.
If he DID take a write-off of $26M on land arguably worth 2.5M, that oughta show up in the NY state tax forms, one would think.
Dems oughta rethink their not accepting them from the state ... for the year that the land donation was made.
Here's more ...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-j-trump-state-park--not-exactly.-486748227809
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Take your dog there to take a dump!